Davenport or chair.



A. E. ANDERSON & H. FELDEEN.

DAVENPORT 0R CHAIR.

APPLICATION nuzo JULY 5.191s.

1%95 311 1 a, Patented. Feb.25,1919L F M15885 I l 7 ALFRED a Ma i l b, ygwtaix HARRY FELDELAQ /I TTORNEPS ALFRED E. ANDERSON AND HARRY FELDEEN, 0F ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

DAVENPORT OR CHAIR.

ll,295,etl'i Specification ofLetters Patent.

liatented Feb. 25, 3919.

To all who: it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALrnuo E. Anointson and l'lAltRY l ininnim, citizens of the United States, and residents of Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ll'avenports or Chairs, of which the tollowing is a specification.

()ur invention relates to improvements in (lavenports or chairs, and' 'iarticularly to the construction of davenport or chair ends, our object being the provision of an end construction which will enable wide. range in thickness to suit; davenports or chairs of light, heavy, and medium construction, which will be applicable to davenports, chairs, rockers, or straight chairs, which will obviate loosening and rattling of parts and which will present great strength and durability and avoid warping and disalinement. 7

in our present construction the davenport or chair end results in substantially a onepiece construction although it is built up of several plies, thus giving in the ma'nul'acture maximum chance and opportunity to vary its strength as well as its ornamentation. The invention is thus applicable to expensive, davenports or chairs of heavy eonstruction as well as cheap davenports or chairs of lightconstruction, and in each instance permits of greatly strengthening the davenport or chair as a whole. i

In the accompanying drawings illustrating our present invention i Figure 1 is a perspective view of a davenport or chair constructed in accordance with our invention, and

Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively a vertical and a horizontal section taken on line 2-2 and 33 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to these figures, our invention contemplates a davenport or'chair end construction in which the rear portion is supported by a depending integral extens on 10 as seen in Fig. 1 which takes the place of t le'l'ear upright or supporting leg of the ordinary construction which we dispense with. The end ll. of the davenport or chair is when complete substantially a one-piece construction, uniting at its front side with the front style 12 and at its top with a top arm 13, the end ll being similarly joined to the said style and top-arm as will be presently described.

The end 11 consists of a core or central plate H as clearly seen in Figs. 2 and 3 which is preferably in a single piece and receives at its opposite sides cross bands 15 and 1t; securely fastened thereto and in turn receiving the veneering l7 and 18. It will be noted that along the. upper and front sides of the davenport or chair end 11 the upper end of whichinay be suitably curved to conform to the curvature of the top arm 13, the core or central plate It extended beyond the adjacent edges of the cross band ing and veneering in order to form tongues which are securely held within conformable grooves if.) and 20 ot the top arm 13 and front style 12 as also seen in Figs. 2 and 3, the shoulders formed by the adjacent edges of the cross banding and veneering along the inner portions of the tongues 21 and 22 being beveled so as to form longitudinal grooves along the inner faces of the top arm and front style to receive a surplusage of glue whereby a stronger union between the parts will result.

it is thus obvious that a chair end constructed in our invention avoids all parts likely to become loose and rattle as well as all warping and disalinement and we have found that a davenport or chair end so constructed will stand considerably more hard usage and strain than a solid board or the ordinary many-piece end.

it is also obvious that the thickness of da ven port or accordance with the end and thus the weight of the daven port or chair may be varied at will and that the invention is equally applicable to cheap and expensive davenport, chair, rocker or straight: chair ends.

lVe claim:

1. An article of the character described having a several ply end provided at its rear lower portion with a depending extension, a front style and atop arm joined to the front. and upper edges respectively of the end, the said several ply end having tongues along its tront and upper edges entering into conformable. grooves in the front style and top arm, the latter of which are. beveled at opposite sides of their grooves to form glue receiving hannels.

:2. .\;1 article oi the character described having an end comprising a single piece core member, cross banding joined to the opposite sides of the core member. and veneering secured tothc cross banding, said core memher being extended. beyond the front and upper edges ef the said cross banding and veneering to form tongues along the front and upper edges 01": the end, and a front style and top arm having grooves to receive the said tongues as described.

3. An article of the character described having an end comprising a single piece core member, cross banding joined to the opposite-sides ofthe (TOIQ member, and Veneering secured to the cross banding, said core men ber being extended beyond the front and upper edges of the said cross bending and veneerlng to form tongues along the front and upper edges of the end, and a fron style and top arm having grooves to receive the said tongues as described, said front and upper edges of the (T088 bending and veneering along the innei portions of the tongues being beveled to form glue receiving channels between the same and the adjacent faces of the front style and top arm when the tongues are extended into the said grooves.

ALFRED E. ANDERSON. HARRY FELDEICN Witnesses:

.ALFRED' (iroomcnn,

AUGUST KELLY. 

